On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:26:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We don't need the semaphore any more since we no longer
> write to the ioctl32 hash table while the kernel is running.
Could we *please* get rid of this ridiculous return type of compat_ioctl?
->ioctl() returns 32bit value. Everywhere. On 32 and 64 bit platforms.
Having ->compat_ioctl() return value twice wider than not just emulated
->ioctl(), but native one as well...
Let's kill that stupidity before adding fsckloads of new instances.
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